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How about a sub-menu (on/off in CM) which displays something like this at the top of the all titles page. It would be navigated using left/right scrolling.
#|A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
Can be delimited by whatever. I recommend vertical bars or whitespace.
This is useful for people that have hundreds or thousands of titles. It's a way to breakup the huge all titles list with an easy to use navigation system. This will help with cutting down on title scrolling time and overall navigational efficiency.
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For what reason do you want a navigation bar like this? What would be the benefit over jumping in the movies list via triple- tab (letters with the numeric keypad) functionality per remote. Cannot image that this would be more efficient and it will destroy the complete "slim" design of the MM 3 media center interface. Just my two cents. Or did I misunderstand you? Attached you will find a screenshot out of mcShoutCast which provides such a navigation bar, which I guess you have in mind!?
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I like this idea. An optional bar across the top ha has all letters and a # symbol- you click up to it, and perhaps a wide button below it that says "Show all titles" so you actually have to click up twice to get to the individual letters, just so you can have a quick way to directionally-navigate back to a menu with all the titles on it- a single click up, then a select button press. what do you think? And yeah- I like the idea of this being optional.
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To be honest I didn't know you could use the numerical keys in a cellphone fashion like that. I didn't think about the implementation just the idea. I've seen it used on the web with great success where there is a need for alphabetical lists. For massive collections I could see listing each letter on a separate page so as to decrease loading time (thumbnails, data, etc..). For those who have really slow systems (me) something like this might potentially aid in speeding up loading times by separating the all titles list further. Hey if nothing else it's another idea. :)
Mikado that image is a bad example because the layout of the items and page design is bad. The idea is cheapened by a bad example of it, no offense. The concept is there though. I should really make my own graphics to illustrate an idea before making one next time. That's my fault.
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I just don't see, why you would need this, when you can enter a letter - let's say "m" - and the list jumps to the movies starting with "m". Another bar would just complicate the menu.
Or are you navigating in MediaCenter with a mouse? That would explain why...
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No actually I'm not I just didn't know you could use those keys for that. I figured they were for TV tuner setups. OK well in that case I guess my suggestion is pointless. Although let's say MM auto-detects that you have a massive collection of more than 10,000 movies or something like that. Then perhaps it would be advantageous to have MM create separate alphabetical pages. Who knows maybe in the future it might be useful.
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